Operation Desert Overseer

Operation Desert Overseer (28 August 2005) was a military action of the Iraq War in which the US Marine Corps fought to liberate their Kurdish allies from the Iraqi insurgents. They fought a battle atop Mount Sinjar against the insurgents, and captured it after heavy resistance.

Operation
When Iraqi insurgents occupied Mount Sinjar in the Kurdish region of Iraq, the US Marine Corps dispatched a task force to liberate their Kurdish allies. The US Marines engaged the insurgents in a battle on the side of the mountain, next to a minefield and the former Ba'athist Iraqi police station. In heavy urban combat, the Marines were victorious over the Iraqi insurgents, and they were successful in liberating Sinjar from the insurgents.